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Tues., May 3, 1977 Scottsdale(Az.) Daily Progress9VIETNAMESE women queue up for rice rations at a state store in Hanoi recently. Signs of war are disappearing in Hanoi and life may be getting better for the city’s 1.5 million citizens. But it still isn’t easy, food isAP photoshort and there is little variety. Vietnam and the U.S. opened talks today in Paris which Hanoi hopes will lead to establishment of diplomatic relations and U.S. aid to help rebuild reunited Vietnam.U.S•tViets expect fast talksPARIS (AP) - The U.S. and Vietnamese governments were reported expecting speedy agreement as they opened talks today on establishment of diplomatic relations.“The talks won’t drag on,’’said one diplomatic source.Richard Holbrooke, the assistant secretary of state for Southeast Asian affairs, and Vice Foreign Minister Phan Hien led the two delegations at the first meeting in the gleaming white pagoda-shaped Vietnamese embassy which Premier Pham Van Dong opened recently.Vietnamese spokesmen said thetalks would continue at their embassy on Wednesday, move to the American embassy for two days, then shift every two days as long as they continual.The U.S. delegation also included James Rosenthal, head of the State Department’s Indochina desk; Frank Sieberts, the department’s director for humanitarian affairs who is responsible for information on the nearly 2,000 Americans missing in action in Vietnam; Kenneth Quinn, special assistant to Holbrooke, and Mark Pratt, first secretary at the U.S. embassy.Hien’s Vietnamese delegation included Tran Quang Co, head of the Foreign Ministry’s North American department, and Vp Quang Hoang, director of the ministry’s department of consular affairs.Hoang is also a member of the North Vietnamese Office for the Search for Information on Americans Missing in Action. That office was set up as a result of the visit to Hanoi two months ago of a special mission from President Carter seeking information on U.S. servicemen missing in the Vietnam War.
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